Want to Surf the Net Faster- FireFox Minefield
A little off topic here, but if you spend as much time as me online, you want to get around as fast as possible. Once you have a T1, Cable or Fios your well on your way, but few people know that what internet browser you use can determine how long a page takes to load and how each website is displayed. Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most dominant player in the world of web browsers, with Mozilla Firefox a close second. There are some niche players like Opera and then you have the recent release of Google’s Chrome, which has been fairly quickly dismissed as an average offering and not currently worthy of a download.
Firefox is currently offering a new browser called Minefield, which has claims of being 10-15% faster then any other browser around, I know most people are like 10-15% but that does add up, if you log 12-15 hours a day online (like me) they you can save yourself 1 hour +, not bad from a free piece of software eah?
**Warning** Minefield is currently in the Alpha mode, meaning that it could get all buggy and bring your computer to it’s knees. I have not read anything negative about it, and I have been using it for about 24 hours now without an issue.
I have found it to indeed be faster then any other browser, it has not acted buggy at all )which is saying alot because it is in Alpha testing) the only thing is that it does not support all FireFox add on’s currently. So if the speed at which you surf the net is important to you and you will not be too upset if the browser starts acting buggy, then give Minefield a try.
Tags: firefox minefield, Google Chrome, Internet Browsers, Internet Explorer 8, minefield, Opera